Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

Seneca the Younger

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• Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Internet
  • Skills

• For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Real
  • History
  • Mother

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Bi-coastal

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • War
  • Man
  • Creative

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• I am an avid runner, mainly on weekends.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Runner
  • Weekends

• Death is the beginning of something.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Beginning
  • Something

• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Power
  • Road
  • Wealth

• I conceived 'All Is Song' as a modernised, loosely interpreted version of Socrates's life.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Life
  • Song
  • Conceived

• Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

  

  Larry Wall

• In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • Shadow

• The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

  

  Margaret Sanger
  • Work
  • Important
  • Hope

• As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Long
  • History
  • Hope

• Jerome said, It's like, a family doesn't work anymore when everyone in it is more miserable than they would be if they were alone, You know?

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Work
  • Family
  • Alone

• I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Mistake
  • Littles

• It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.

  

  Jason Day
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Wind

• Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Great
  • Small
  • Choices

• Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether you actually win or lose the bet. By the same token when you make a bet with the worst of it, where the odds are not in your favor, you have lost something, whether you actually win or lose the bet.

  

  David Sklansky
  • Winning
  • Lose
  • Worst

• No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wind
  • Favors
  • Ships